Doctored Content and Viled Comments

A.S Panneer Selvam, readers’ editor of a national newspaper, said that it was chilling to realise that the country’s democratic fabric was being undermined by a combination of a parody Twitter account, a photoshopped image, and a doctored video.

L’affaire JNU is a reminder to journalism to deploy its core values in the age of digital excess and follow rules in using user-generated content at prime time, he said.